Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Forestry Policy and Strategy: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will be supporting Coillte to do more afforestation. Its objective was to manage forest in an effective way for the environment and for the climate. Somebody might have planted mature forestry 40 years ago, then when it comes up for being harvested, somebody might not want to do the planting again. It is normally not the same person who planted it in the first place but might be a son, daughter, niece or nephew who does not want to do the planting again, wait for 30 or 40 years and invest in that. There is often a market in that space where Coillte-----

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